Lead Software Engineer
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- Full-time
- Lead
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- Listed here until Nov 28, 2026
$160K to $180K a year as published by the employer
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Summary
Provides technical leadership for designing and delivering cloud-native applications and modernizing legacy systems to microservices.
About this role
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Lead Software Engineer
Dulles, Virginia, United States
Full Time
Job Description
Job Summary
The Lead Software Engineer provides technical leadership for the design, development, and delivery of cloud-native applications. This role implements technical direction for modernizing legacy, on-premises applications into container-based, event-driven microservices and micro frontends, guiding development teams from architecture through production delivery. This role leads to end-to-end solution design across Angular/React frontends, microservice backends, internal APIs, third-party services, and SQL Server data stores, ensuring alignment with business needs and engineering standards.
Essential Tasks and Responsibilities
- Manages the technical modernization of roadmap, defining phased migration strategies for moving on-premises monolithic applications to cloud-hosted microservices while reducing technical debt, infrastructure cost, and operational risk.
- Leads end-to-end solution architecture and hands-on development on Microsoft Azure, selecting appropriate services, including platform-as-a-service offerings.
- Provides technical expertise across development teams, coordinates dependencies, resolves complex design and delivery issues, and mentors' engineers through design and code reviews to ensure quality and compliance with IT standards.
- Establishes architecture standards, integration patterns, and reusable components for container-based and event-driven workloads and guides consistent adoption across development teams.
- Guides adoption of AI-assisted, spec-driven development practices to accelerate design, implementation, testing, and documentation while maintaining architectural rigor and code quality.
- Embeds DevSecOps practices throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC), integrating automated security scanning, policy-as-code, and vulnerability and dependency management into continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
Job Snapshot
Department
Business Technology Services
Location
Dulles, Virginia, United States
Employee Type
Full Time
Skills named in this posting
- Microsoft Azure
- Angular
- React
- SQL Server
- DevSecOps
- CI/CD pipelines
- Container-based architectures
- Event-driven microservices
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